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Speed Reading: Got Learning Skills? How smart am I, when I just typed illiteracy with one L instead of two? Do Inqualify as a certified illiterate? Nyet - because I have the spelling knowledge and corrected the mistake when I saw it. Tell me if you know that 10% of the U.S. population of 306 ...
“Before You Can Learn & Remember, Two-Brain Signals.” • 1. Me: “Did you know your evolutionary brain hates change? It considers it a threat. Learning is included.” • 2. You: “So what? Is there a solution to being a great learner?” • 3. Me: “Yes, and it’s quick and easy. But you have to know it, and then implement it before each learning session.” • 4. You: “How long does it take, and is it permanent?” • 5. Me: “One-minute each to install in your nervous system, and lasts for 90-minutes.” • 6. You: “That’s all, 90-minutes. So it’s not a permanent fix.”
Headlines Bugs Bunny was absolutely right; Beta Carotene (four carrots daily) improvesnyour memory and reduces dementia. Ok, you have to chew up a slew ofncarrots daily, or a pill with 50 milligrams of Beta Carotene taken 3x a week. So far the scientific evidence is for men only; if you want ...
How New Scientific Research Adds to Your Health And Longevity If you are like me about wild medical claims, you are a skeptic and contrarian and believe almost no authority or expert without proof. Sure there are breakthroughs, but the drug companies are the last one to believe. But then again there are exceptions to even the best rules. But what about stuff that sounds like good old common sense? Al Einstein said, “Common sense is just conventional wisdom with the prejudices we learned up to age 18.” So who do you believe? The Jou al of Applied Psychology, March 1, 2011
How to Learn Something Important You Never Knew What is more important to your personal success, knowing HOW to do what it takes to succeed, or WHY you want to succeed? Is it the skill-set or your motivation? Are we talking about opinions or scientific research? Does This Help The LEFT frontal region of your brain is directly involved in experiencing POSITIVE emotions like laughter and happiness, while the RIGHT frontal region of your brain causes you to experience NEGATIVE emotions like fear and blame. Don’t say, So What - yet. Motivation Direction
Is Willpower the Butterfly Effect in Humans? The author has been searching scientific research for five years to discover the physiological site of human willpower (a/k/a volition and conation). Volition is the act of willing, choosing of resolving. < L to want or wish. Conation is a psychological term meaning mental life conce ed with striving, desiring, and volition. Location A team of neuroscientists at Califo ia Institute of Technology in 2009 pinpoints will-power in the Ventro-Medial PreFrontal Cortex.
How to Make Big Decisions Consciously – Instead of on Auto-Pilot It is an insult to tell anyone living that they make their most important decisions non-consciously. Homo sapiens pride ourselves on behaviors using logic and reason, math and science, right? Neuroscientists until 2008 concluded our consciousness (reason, logic and thinking) was the basis for western civilization and its progress. Imagine an executive at Apple being told his conscious mind is almost an illusion, and all their success is the product of non-consciousrn(auto-pilot) decision-making. Ridiculous.
Are There Five Universal Questions For Success? Homo sapiens are left tongue-tied and brainless under emotional rntsunamis like failure-rejection-defeat (loss of love-occupation-health). When we most need input from our PreFrontal Cortex, Executive (Top-Down) Brain with reason-logic-meaning – there is Nada – Nothing – Nobody Home. Have you ever experienced the feeling of worthlessness after a career termination, rejection in school, or the loss of an emotional relationship?
Are There Five Streams of Consciousness That Run Us? You probably know Home sapiens come with a switchboard between our left and right brain to process new sensory information. Remember its name and you win arnprize – Corpus Callosum (Latin for firm body). You and I hold conferences and Q&A sessions with one or more of our five (5) Section Chiefs in order to problem-solve make important decisions, reading and thinking.
How to Shrink Insomnia to 55 Seconds If you are over the age of 35 you already have an intimate relationship with Insomnia. Sleep difficulties are SOP (Standard Operating Procedure). From Latin “somn” means sleep, and “in” translates to Not! I asked a class of 30 high schoolers if they ever experienced stress or insomnia at age 16. There was a tone in my voice that whispered the obvious answer was a big –rn“Of course not – that’s for old people like you!”
New Scientific Research on Benefits of Belief in a Deity? Let’s get on the same footing – whether the reader is personally a believe or not – this serious research authored by Professor Michael Inzlicht at the University of Toronto, has something important to teach us about our brain. The research appears in the jou al Psychological Science, March 2009.
Why Inquiring Minds Care: It’s Health And Longevity Do you find that 95% of all Internet articles never teach you anything practical? Can you even remember the last useful strategy or schema (diagram/pattern) you implemented to improve your life? Inquiring Minds read books, articles and reports to learn, remember, and apply knowledge to improve their lives or they take-a-nap. I am a Contrarian – a skeptic who has great difficulty believing information because an Authority Figure (expert) or Ancient Book (Bible) tells me to have faith. Not-good-enough, sir.
How to be Outrageous And Win The Prize Called Mo… Do you delete 90% of your emails unread? Me too, because Clutter wastes my time and makes feel like a Mooch (patsy, jerk). What makes us stop to read the other unsolicited 10%? Curiosity, and the belief it may just give us Pleasure and help avoid Pain. A Bit of History We have been involved in teaching Speed Reading to students and executives since 1959. When the Internet went commercial October 25 1994, we were the one-and-only listing under Speed Reading.
Aristotle’s Model Still Works Frankly, we personally would not know Aristotle’s principles if the Google information system landed on our thick, three-pound cabeza. If we ever learned his ideas, they are buried in the same crypt with algebra, geometry and Shakespeare. Just to sound ...
Do you read the first three or four sentences of an article or report,and stop to ask (internal dialogue) the two-word valuation question,Who Cares? Fifty percent of us decide Go/No-Go based on the headline alone. How about the powerhouse question, WIIFM? (What is In It For Me?) I do it all the ...
“Are You ‘Normal’ and Hate Learning?” • 1. Me: “Normal is the opposite of Abnormal, right? Dictionary.com defines ‘normal’ as Average-Ordinary-Common. Add: mediocre & second-rate. • Normal makes you Defensive toward Change, Improvement, and expanding your Comfort-Zone. Are Bill Gates, Warren Buffet & Donald Trump Normal?” • It’s not just Semantics - ‘Normal’ is for losers. Extraordinary ideas and actions bring home the bacon.”
Are People’s Judgments Rational And Stable or What? 21st Century Science: If you are a lifelong learner and want a healthy mind-body connection and longevity, you have to consistently and persistently use your brain to keep learning. What does that really mean? How? Did you know up to half of folks over 80-years old either have Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia? You are going to live into your nineties so a healthy brain and longevity matter to you, right?
Rules For Cool Vendors, nby H. Bernard Wechsler and Jackie A. Guiliano, Ph.D There are four answers folks want when they read or listen to your proposal ornbrilliant White Paper. If you remember them, you will influence and convince -nverses making the reader yawn with an open mouth, and then ...
Why Symphony Conductors Live Longer. If you read the obituaries for fun and as social history, the #1 occupation producing healthy, long living folks – I mean into their 90s – are musical conductors rnmaking ridiculous arm gestures. Can their secret of healthy, long lives, work for others? Inquiring Minds need to know because we want to be around for the fun and games. The critical exercises are easy to employ at your desk and requires a miserly five-minutes to implement daily. We have recommended these baby-easy exercises to a legion of executives whor
Is Listening The Secret to Helping Others Improve Their Productivity? How many times do we want to talk things over with a Silent Partner, compared to hearing what he/she thinks or knows? Is silence Platinum, Golden or Silver? Neuroscientific research has proof. I heard – if you give a JackAss a Harvard education, all you end up with is a SmartAss.
“How do Your Ideas create Money-Dinero-Wealth?” • 1. Me: “Your words attract your tribe. People who hunger & thirst to be in Alignment with your goals, desires, & intentions. Call it: Target, Ends & Objectives.” • 2. You: “OK, but I need examples of the ‘right’ words.” • 3. Me: “The #1 power word is NOT ‘Free’ or ‘You’, it’s ‘Convenience’. Animal-Predators seek prey for survival. • Humans seek the Comfortable, to Fill-Our Needs, & Serve Our Purposes. It’s the cause for DELETE or CLICK-to-Read.
“Are You ‘Normal’ and Hate Learning?” • 1. Me: “Normal is the opposite of Abnormal, right? Dictionary.com defines ‘normal’ as Average-Ordinary-Common. Add: mediocre & second-rate. • Normal makes you Defensive toward Change, Improvement, and expanding your Comfort-Zone. Are Bill Gates, Warren Buffet & Donald Trump Normal?” • It’s not just Semantics - ‘Normal’ is for losers. Extraordinary ideas and actions bring home the bacon.”
“Past Your PEAK? Easy way to add 36% to your IQ - fast.” • 1. Me: “We tested a baby-easy strategy that takes 5-minutes to add 36% to your long-term memory. Interested?” • 2. You: “Do you have to be a Brainiac to make it work? Could my teenager use it to ACE his grades and exams?” • 3. Me: “If she is motivated to learn and grow. It works just as easy for adults & executives in corporations. Anyone who is active in our Knowledge Economy benefits. Yes or no, and I’ll talk to someone else.” • 4. You: “Test this on who & where?”
Can These Two-Minute Rituals Improve Your Health & Longevity? This baby-easy anaerobic (no oxygen required) exercise at your desk can reduce your waistline and improve your blood circulation.
“Why Using, “I-AM”, is a Game-Changer!” Remember this? “I-Am-What-I-Am, and That’s All That I-Am, I’m Popeye-The Sailor Man. I’m Strong at The Finish, Cause I Eats Me Spinach. I’m Popeye-The-Sailor-Man.”rn [Repeat the Lyrics]rn “I-am-what-I-am, and that’s all that I-am. I’m Popeye-the-sailor-man. I’m strong-at-the-finish, cause I eats-me- Spinach. I’m Popeye-the-sailor-man.” By Sammy Learner, 1933 www.speedreading101.org 877-567-2500. • The name for God told to Moses is:r
Why Peripheral Vision is Your Secret Asset “Always look people in the eye,” my Pop said, “because Gonifs (thieves, swindlers, and rascals) never look you in the orbs. They are too busy figuring how to steal your 401K like Bernie Madoff.” That remark got me thinking about peripheral and foveal (central) vision. When you are jerking around on the Internet, playing video games, watching TV, add reading-and-writing, you are focusing your eyes through a tiny keyhole in your retina called the Fovea < Latin for Pit.
Are Affirmations Worth Doing? A poll of our graduates including 81% of corporate executives and 89% ofrncollege students absolutely hate daily rituals. They do not make a habit of daily prayer nor reciting positive statements to program their mind. Our research indicates there are very powerful benefits and results tornconsistent repetition of affirmations. Like what? Money, creativity, health, and improved relationships. Affirmations appear to counterbalance daily chronic stress. So what?
How to Double Your Learning & Memory Skills by a Weird-Strategy In 30-Seconds. Yes, really. • 1. Your personal coconut (skull) weighs three-pounds. • 2. Your brain requires about 25% of all the Oxygen that your body uses. • 3. You brain also requires about 23% of all the Glucose (blood-sugar of your entire body. • 4. To experience your personal Ah-Ha! moments of knowledge and new skills, your brain must have a steady supply of Oxygen to your hundred-billion neurons (nerve-cells). But you know that.
Stress Causes Gain? What is your automatic Association and reaction when you read – “No-Pain”? Right, “No-Gain!” We are not talking about pumping-iron, yet it applies torncognitive learning. Most of us invent reasons not to do the repetitious practice,rn(home work) it takes to create personal Mastery of new skills The first step in the cure of excuse making is Awareness. Why? Homo sapiens like you and me live in a perpetual state of denial rnabout potential failure and rejection.
The entire scientific community called him a head-case and tried to shut him up. He could not prove his theories for ten-years, but shouted his conclusions at his medical colleagues as if he had the evidence in hand. Dr. Hans Berger, German neuropsychiatrist and professor at the University of ...
Why You MUST Reward Yourself to Learn a New Skill • 1. Me: “Mike” (my 15 year old kid) do you know why Communism failed in the powerful Soviet Union?” • 2. Mike: “I want to win a scholarship, ace the SAT, and land “Hot-Girls”, so Who-Cares? So-What? And WIIFMrn(What’s In It For Me?)” • 3. Me: “And that’s exactly why understanding why the second most powerful military system in the world fell like that ton-of-bricks. Their example gets you what you want.” • 4. Mike: “Now I’m interested, but Pop, no theory or philosophy, just easy-and-quick facts.”
“Are You ‘Normal’ and Hate Learning?” • 1. Me: “Normal is the opposite of Abnormal, right? Dictionary.com defines ‘normal’ as Average-Ordinary-Common. Add: mediocre & second-rate. • Normal makes you Defensive toward Change, Improvement, and expanding your Comfort-Zone. Are Bill Gates, Warren Buffet & Donald Trump Normal?” • It’s not just Semantics - ‘Normal’ is for losers. Extraordinary ideas and actions bring home the bacon.”
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------rn“Can Two-Minutes Produce Up To Six-Hours Of Energy?” • 1. “Would you spend two-minutes programming a new thought & emotion into your Mind - if you had experiential proof it delivers your Goals?” • 2. “Things you set as goals & work for, are almost always producing – ‘What-You-Want’ in-your-relationships-and career.” Your consistent thoughts & emotions create your most important behaviors & success.
“Are you Saying We See With our EARS?” • 1. “I showed my teenager Mike, this new scientific research that came to a weird conclusion about how we SEE. • 2. “Pop, I don’t get it. We don’t just see with our eyes, the retina part, they say past experience and our expectation change the visual info, huh?” • 3. “That’s why I’m showing to you. It is weird science. Should you believe it? Yes, neuroscientists for the last 5-years have been saying that Reading is Hearing overriding just Seeing.”
“You know what Air-Guitar is, What is Air-Palm? • 1. “Did you know that Guitar companies internationally hold contests for big prizes for the best Air-Guitar pretenders?” • 2. “No, why, they are just like Elvis imitators or Mimes.” • 3. “Well, these contests attract thousands, and they end up purchasing expensive guitars. Before you ask, the imitators are ranked on Movements, Emotion, Rhythm, the Mouth Sounds they add to their act.” • 4. “Uh Pop, Who-cares? So-what? What’s In It For Me?”
How to ADD 51% to Your Long-Term Memory – Permanently • 1. This is a conversation I had with my teenager, Mike about a system we teach at our one-day workshop at Columbia University. • It helps our graduates ACE school & their careers. It works for kids age 10, to high school, college & grad-school. We train corporate executive with this strategy. • 2. Me: “Michael, you’re a good high school student without my help. Would you be interested is learning a baby-easy system to improve your comprehension & long-term memory about 51%, permanently?
“Have you ever heard of “No-Win, No-Pay” Contingency Fee?” • 1. Do you get emails offering to help you and ask for ‘Money’ upfront?” We get fifty daily. • 2. In law, especially negligence & some contracts, we use “Contingency Fee Agreements”. No-Win, No-Pay. The secret is that lawyers can calculate which are winners & losers. • There is one other type. “Borderline-cases”. They want 100% ‘sure-things’, but will take 20% of the “maybe” cases. Why? The court costs are low, ($100s), and the return can be in the $1,000s.” • 3. “I was talking to my 15-year old, Mike.”r
------------------------------------------------------------------------------rn“Ancient Discovery of Triggering “Sleep” is…” “I just can’t fall asleep”, my 13 year old son said. “It’s eating all that junk that is the culprit, that & 7-hours a day of SyFy with Captain Kirk.” “Pop, you’re two Star Treks series out-of-date. But anyway, hit me with that Neuroscience to fall asleep.” • 1. I-Am Googling everything: example, the U.S. government funds the National Sleep Foundation.
“How You Can Read-&-Remember 300-pages-daily - Like JFK, LBJ, Nixon & Carter.” • 1. Bill Gates: “What I want? To be able to read, superfast!” • 2. Warren Buffet: “I’ve wasted ten (10) years reading slowly.” • 3. My partner, Evelyn Wood, the creator of Speed Reading, trained the White House Staffs of four U.S. Presidents. • 4. We signed an agreement with JFK, LBJ, Nixon & Carter - Not to Advertise that each of these four Presidents took our “SpeedReading” workshops.
“What Makes one Graduate Wealthy, and the others ‘only’ Average?” • 1. Me: “This is new research, December, 2013, by experts at MIT and Harvard. They say stuff about education that is brand-new. This is relevant to parents who care about their kids’ future.” • 2. You: “Does it apply to adults too?” • 3. Me: “Yes, if they are willing to learn a new approach to making knowledge pay-off in their career. Interested?” • 4. You: “But no Theory or Philosophy, just practical stuff I can use to help my 6 and 9 year old kids, right?”
“What’s With Left & Right Brain?” • 1. “I’m confused, professor. Is there a left & right brain dominance? Which is better?” • 2. “The answer is too important to leave it to “educators”, who like things complicated, so they have a job explaining intentionally, abstract ideas. My cousin Albert said, ‘if you can’t explain your idea to a smart six-year-old, you don’t understand it yourself.” • 3. “Personally, I like baby-easy examples, analogies or metaphors that I can visual & remember for the future.”
“What’s With Left & Right Brain?” • 1. “I’m confused, professor. Is there a left & right brain dominance? Which is better?” • 2. “The answer is too important to leave it to “educators”, who like things complicated, so they have a job explaining intentionally, abstract ideas. My cousin Albert said, ‘if you can’t explain your idea to a smart six-year-old, you don’t understand it yourself.” • 3. “Personally, I like baby-easy examples, analogies or metaphors that I can visual & remember for the future.”
“Want to be YOU at age 93? New Research Offers Proof.” • 1. Me: Important news: “University of Texas, Dallas, 10.21.13, lead author, Denise Park, in jou al, Psychological Science offers verified evidence you can avoid Dementia and even Alzheimer’s as a Senior. • You are going to live to 95, if you avoid being run-down by a City bus. Problem: 50% of Seniors over 80 have Alz or other forms of ‘dementia’. Wanna avoid it?” • 2. You: “Sure, but will the solution be complicated, time- consuming and annoying?”
“What’s With Left & Right Brain?” • 1. “I’m confused, professor. Is there a left & right brain dominance? Which is better?” • 2. “The answer is too important to leave it to “educators”, who like things complicated, so they have a job explaining intentionally, abstract ideas. My cousin Albert said, ‘if you can’t explain your idea to a smart six-year-old, you don’t understand it yourself.” • 3. “Personally, I like baby-easy examples, analogies or metaphors that I can visual & remember for the future.”
“How to DOUBLE your Profits from a Work-AT-Home Business” 1. Superstar Licensees teach in multiple NICHES because they earn more income and get more referrals. Examples are: • 1. Elementary school kids 1st to 8th grade. • 2. High school: freshmen to seniors. • 3. College: Community Colleges & Four-Year Universities. 2. How to get into these schools: • A) Parent-Teachers Association. Attend meetings. • B) Guidance Counsellors: • C) Principals & Vice Principles • D) Offer a FREE Mini-Session in SpeedReading101 for parents and students by mailing sent by school.r
How your Beliefs Decide Your Success or Failure • 1. We asked a dozen blog readers, “What’s a turn-on to keep reading, & what makes you hit the Delete?” • 2. Ten of twelve said, “Does it help me solve a problem orrndo I think, “So what?”, “Who-Cares?”, “WIIFM – what’s-in-it-for-me?” Conclusion: “Is-It-Relevant to my life?” • 3. Then we asked one-hundred graduates of SpeedReading101, “What makes you stay with an article, verses ‘Delete’?
• “What So Great About an Affirmation?” • My Law/Psych professor asked and answered his own Question. • “First, it creates an attitude, mood, & belief because it is not just words, but a statement aligned with feelings of awe. • Second, it connects in our brain with the Perisylvian Cortex, PreFrontal Cortex, and the Limbic System. That’srnboth the left and right brain, reason & analysis, together with emotion & feelings. • Third, if you repeat the Affirmation as little as three (3) times daily, for three-days, it programs your mind like ar
Want a Fast-System to Add 34% to Your Memory & IQ?” • 1. Me: “I bet you’re a skeptic and contrarian like me. Do you ask for proof and evidence before you believe?” • 2. You: “Sure, my mama said not to ‘believe’ strangers. My Pop said, “Hold on to your wallet & checkbook or they’ll be ‘gone-with-the-wind.” • 3. Me: These two baby-easy, valuable strategies to add 34% to your memory are based on the following recent scientific research:
“Affirmations Change Your Brain?” • “Wait. Are you saying that ordinary, dumb words, repeated in a sing-song fashion, can change my thoughts and emotions? Sounds ridiculous to me”, said Stephanie. • “More incredible, the latest scientific research at Carnegie-Mellon University, and published in the jou al, PLOS ONE, says these “dumb” words, repeated like a parrot, can boost your problem-solving skills. Our experience is “affirmations” can improve your results up to 80%.” • “Tell me more.”
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Science Finally “Gets” Meditation, Do You?” • 1. “Have you tested “mindfulness-meditation”? You seem to know that you hate it, and it’s a waste of time.” • 2. “Sure, a dozen times, and it gives me a headache, and seems like it’s a way to take a nap when you should be working.”